SvGrid Studio Tips and Tricks: Build Svelte Data Apps, Fast
Practical SvGrid Studio tips - AI app generation, a designer that emits real SvelteKit, schema-driven edit forms, code-behind with ctx.grid, production auth/data/deploy toggles, and real data-source binding - each with a snippet.
SvGrid Studio turns entities and screens into a real, ejectable SvelteKit app - no runtime lock-in. These tips cover the moves that make it feel like a team-scale tool: generate from a prompt, drop into code-behind, and ship to production. Each is a short, concrete example. This page grows over time, so bookmark it.
Describe an app, get real screens
The generator writes the same project a human would build by hand, so nothing is a black box: everything it makes is editable and emits real code.
npx @svgrid/studio generate "a CRM with contacts, deals and tasks"
The designer emits a real SvelteKit app
Drag screens together in the app designer; the output is plain, readable SvelteKit code you can keep building on outside Studio.
npx @svgrid/studio build ./my-app.studio.json
Edit forms come from your schema
Field types, required rules and computed values live on the entity, so the create/edit form stays in sync instead of being hand-maintained.
screen: { type: 'form', entity: 'contact' }
Add code-behind with ctx.grid
Drop into a handler and you get the live grid API plus the screen context - the escape hatch for anything the visual designer does not cover.
onRowClick(row, ctx) { ctx.grid.selectRow(row.id) }
Studio apps ship to production
These are real, standard building blocks emitted into the project - auth, a typed database layer and deploy config - not a proprietary hosting lock-in.
project.auth = true
project.dataLayer = 'drizzle'
project.deploy = 'docker'
Bind screens to real data sources
Design against seeded in-memory data, then point the same screens at a live database when you are ready. The binding, not the UI, is what changes.
entity.source = { kind: 'sql', table: 'contacts' }
Add buttons that run real handlers
Actions emit a real /api/actions/<id> route and a handler you fill in, so a button like Approve or Send is wired end to end, not faked.
screen.actions = [{ id: 'approve', label: 'Approve', handler: 'approveOrder' }]
Drag UI components onto any page
Screens are composable. The toolbox is registry-driven, so building a landing or dashboard page is drag, drop and set props - and it all emits real Svelte.
// drag SvButton onto a page, then bind its onclick to an action
Gate data and screens with roles
Role rules live on the entity and flow through to the generated UI and server handlers, so a viewer cannot edit and a page can hide behind a role.
entity.access = { read: ['*'], write: ['admin', 'manager'] }
Compose dashboards from KPI cards
Point a card at a field and an aggregate and Studio renders the metric; combine cards and charts for an at-a-glance screen without a separate BI tool.
screen: { type: 'dashboard', cards: [{ metric: 'revenue', agg: 'sum', format: 'currency' }] }
Wire master-detail from a relation
Relations are first-class: one definition drives the detail grid, the drill-through and the query, so parent/child screens are not hand-plumbed.
relation: { parent: 'order', child: 'lineItem', on: 'orderId' }
Ship with a generated deploy pipeline
Pick a deploy target and Studio scaffolds the pipeline alongside the app, turning "it works in the designer" into "it is live" without bespoke DevOps.
project.deploy = { target: 'docker' } // or 'vercel', 'node'
Start building
Every tip links to its Studio docs. Begin with the Studio getting-started guide or read how the app designer generates code you own.